Richard Dreyfuss – MovieActors.com

Richard Dreyfuss received his Best Actor Oscar for playing the struggling New York city actor who shares an apartment with a mother and her young daughter.

About Richard Dreyfuss (1947 – )

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss was born on October 29th, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York City.

Richard Dreyfuss is an American leading man, who has excelled in portraying wisecracking, loquacious characters.

Dreyfuss career-making roles began with his parts in Dillinger,American Graffiti and The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz.

Richard Dreyfuss was the youngest man to win a Best Actor Oscar. Richard overcame a drug problem in the early 1980s after a car crash.

Richard Dreyfuss has been unlucky in marriage, but has been a great father to his three children by his first wife, Jeramie Rain, whom he married in 1983, and divorced in 1995. Dreyfuss married Janelle Lacey in 1999, but they divorced in 2005. In 2006, Richard married for a third time, to Svetlana Erokhin.

Richard Dreyfuss has also done some fine work recently in television, making appearances in such series as Weeds (TV Series - 2010), Parenthood (TV Series - 2011), Family Guy (TV Series-2009 ) and the TV movie Happiness Isn't Everything (2009).

Richard Dreyfuss's notable movie credits include...

Hello Down There
The Young Runaways
The Graduate (Uncredited)
Valley Of The Dolls
DillingerAmerican Graffiti (1973)
The Apprenticeship Of Duddy KravitzJaws (1975)
INSERTSClose Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
The Big Fix (1978)
The Competition (1980)
Who's Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
The Buddy System (1984)
Down And Out In Beverly Hills (1986)
Stand By Me (1986)Stakeout (1987)
Tin Men (1987)
Nuts (1987)
Moon Over Parador (1988)
Always (1989)
Postcards From The Edge (1990)Another Stakeout
Let It Ride
What About Bob? (1991)
Lost In Yonkers (1993)
The American President (1995)
Night Falls On Manhattan (1996)
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
The Crew (2000)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Silver City (2004)
Poseidon (2006)
W (2008)
My Life In Ruins (2009)
Leaves Of Grass (2009)
The Lightkeepers (2009)
Piranha (2010)
Red (2010)

Richard Dreyfuss's television credits include...

Karen (67 Series)
Untold Damage
Two Of The Money
Victory At Entebbe
Prisoner Of Honor
Raid On Entebbe
Oliver Twist
The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Education Of Max Bickford (Series)
Coast To Coast